Returning to Life As We Know It?
I'm having mixed feelings over California re-opening. On the one hand, I'm super glad that the mask wearing is minimized, that shops can open fully again, that hugging people is [...]
Spring Break and I’m Exhausted
What's up with vacations tiring you out? Spring break week just finished. I was sooooo looking forward to sleeping in. But apparently, I negated that extra sleep by just having [...]
And the parenting award goes to…
We're at Starbucks and Chance is asking questions about his babyhood. (He gets very nostalgic over a blended strawberry lemonade.) I've run through all the usual stories - his first [...]
Game on!
When I picked up my son for lunch today this is what he was drawing in the office. Then he followed up with, "Mom, does this look like a . [...]
Bad Mom Move #1,346
So apparently I sent my child to school with a moldy sandwich. Which I find ironic considering that whole other incident involving bread. I was going to pack a lunchables [...]
The day I was going to sleep in
At 6:22 by my clock (which is really 6:12 because I do that ridiculous thing where I set the clock ten minutes ahead in a sad attempt to be on [...]
Who knew cause and effect was genetic?
So essentially, I'm a smartass. (Shocker, right?) A smartass and a storyteller. I have probably been these things since I learned to talk, spinning some facetious yarn about how binkies [...]
And here’s where I piss everybody off #1
Since there is always someone on the web foaming at the mouth about "breast is best" or the ethical (?) considerations of foreskins or whatever other reason why their parenting [...]
Soccer Moms and their contribution to the oil crisis
Our life without school Mornings: Watch kid TV and have leisurely breakfast Do activity sheets (i.e. coloring pages with letters on them); read stories Have lunch at home (home-baked bread, [...]